Anvils Quotations

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.